Tag: Murder
The US murder rate fell to historic lows in 2025 –...
James Tuttle, University of Montana
The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history.
How the ‘slayer rule’ might play a role in determining who...
Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia and Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark
The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and...
Poisons are a potent tool for murder in fiction – a...
Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
People have used poisons throughout history for a variety of purposes: to hunt animals...
Red flag laws and the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting – questions...
Alex McCourt, Johns Hopkins University
The killing of five patrons in a Colorado LGBTQ bar on Nov. 19, 2022,...
More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores – 13% of...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in...
When families of murder victims speak at death penalty trials, their...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The Trump administration is spending its final months authorizing executions. Ten federal death row prisoners have been killed so far this...
I track murder cases that use the ‘gay panic defense,’ a...
W. Carsten Andresen, St. Edward's University
On January 21, New Jersey became the ninth state in the nation to ban the gay panic defense, a...
How to distinguish a psychopath from a ‘shy-chopath’
John Edens, Texas A&M University
What makes a criminal a psychopath?
Their grisly deeds and commanding presence attract our attention – look no further than...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
